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Is your "400A" single or 3-phase? 3-phase at 400A per phase would be about 260kW which is indeed a lot of grow-lights What's the project? Have you or your contractor done a proper prospective load calculation? Incoming supply overhead or underground? Is there a HV supply at the road where the transformer will be located?

Already well established for car-ports https://www.clenergy.com/product/shade/ezshade-2/ and available here for a price https://globalhouse.co.th/product/detail/072104095056 I doubt that using the panels alone as a building roof would meet the building regulations in many countries.

Nah, 4 months is no issue whatever. Usually, so long as there's a +ve balance, the account stays open. Any fees are deducted from the available balance and once that gets to zero the account is closed (it may still be possible to revive it even then).

I'm never convinced by things that have two unrelated functions; they often do neither particularly well. 85W/m2 for $190/m2 with an expected power generating life of 10-20 years (thin film are some of the shortest-lived solar panels) after which they become simply roof tiles. Meanwhile, a conventional 340W, 2m2 polycrystalline panel is around $100 retail and will live for at least 25 years... Of course, they look pretty nice and many don't like the appearance of conventional solar panels, so there's a market there.

yeah ^^^. Madam does it all the time. If she gets bored with a piece it gets sold (for the current gold scrap value) and she gets a new piece for an effective couple of k Baht. Of course, if I am within range, the bit she wants is rather heavier then the previous ...

Time to lose the Ferrari!

High water at Pak Kret. Most definitely continuing the downwards trend, but it could do with being faster for many riverside communities.

I'm certain that it was my Plan-B which convinced the river that it just wasn't worth flooding our place just so it could muddy some tiles It didn't, so some painting will be required after filling the screw holes. The masking tape certainly made it easier (possible) to actually remove the silicon. Got to test the pressure washer this weekend, I expect more paint will be needed after that too.

Our floor drains are actually lower than the water came this time. Bin liner over the drain with a sandbag on top stemmed the flow to a drip, this time! Next issue would be the downstairs toilet pan!

So, you still need a licence to do homebrew?

Yeah, we have a much better idea of how high it can get before it comes in the house (rather higher than I originally thought too) and just what we need to protect. I had a backup plan if it went much higher which should handle the 2011 levels. I did a test install on one door just in case but we ended up with only a tiny amount getting past the sandbags which our small pumps managed to handle easily. That's Shera board, silicon behind (over masking tape to protect the paint - hopefully), brace it with a couple of sandbags behind if the level really came up.

If it does the job then why go complex? ????

We don't have the same usage profile being more constant loads, but this is our generation from 10.6kWP for the last 12 months. There are plenty of electronic meters with RS485 / ModBus which you could interface with your Pi and do by the second energy logging. Have a look here https://aseannow.com/topic/1161970-an-internet-enabled-solar-power-monitoring-system-another-project-from-crossy-labs/

Long ago, when working in Korea, a couple of us took a trip to Incheon on a blistering Sunday afternoon. After finding the location of the Incheon landings a cool drink was in order. A coke machine was nearby so some coins went in and a coke dropped out. The bottle wasn't warm, it was hot. Thinking "any coke is better than no coke" the top was removed and a good slurp taken. Followed by spray painting coke-ing the machine and a nearby wall. Hot coke really is the single most disgusting thing I've ever tasted, surpassing even the "salted entrails of sea cucumber" as served in the Hilton Hotel's "Sura" restaurant. Now the evening buffet in the Hilton lobby restaurant was something else ...

Yup, so much so that someone restored the original and then colourised it! It's still just as bad as the day it was released.

Then you need Plan-9 ...

Ivacy have a decent solution for the BBC. Not expensive.

Yes, we had to get an extra page copied. Do note that, of course, every immigration office is different in their actual requirements.

Well, a little more up to date research reveals the availability of Type-B RCDs e.g. https://www.lazada.co.th/products/rccb-type-b-ev-car-2p-c-4p-32a-40a-i3112938453-s11534562001.html? Note that these are RCDs and so require a separate MCB for over-current protection. Some useful info on RCD selection https://www.technosun.com/descargas/SCHNEIDER-CONEXT-nota-corriente-residual-EN.pdf

October generation figures, slightly better than last month but still not wonderful.

Keyvisa were fine, the UK passport office taking 14 weeks to do their job was rather less fine ???? And yes, apart from photocopies, moving my stamps to the new PP cost zero Baht. On the other hand, the local administration office did charge for the updated KR22 marriage registration. The outrageous fee of ... One whole Baht! and we got a receipt.

Once your item ships you can use "Track". The amount of actual tracking detail varies with the logistics company, but they all mostly call ahead when they are about to deliver. The regular ones all know us so they usually call just before they push the "doorbell" (if you hear it, you will know why it's in the "ears").

I did exactly this at Pathum Thani immigration today. Of course, they had a list:- And still needed another 2 Baht copy (they actually wanted all the extension stamps). All pretty painless really, took a couple of hours of mostly waiting. Free! Apart from them using up two pages in my new passport of course.

In metres (meters) please. I had to actually Google "mini-split" to make sure my understanding was correct, but pretty well every A/C on sale here is of this kind, just ask for "aircon" and you're good to go. The standard Thai "guesstimate" for sizing is 600-700 BTU/m2 of floor area, since you need 20C I'd be looking at something towards the upper end of that range and definitely an "inverter" type. I would also insist on a copper heat-exchanger, a lot of the cheaper units use aluminium. I'm not sure how that would react to any airborne chemicals (it's a loooong time since I did any home processing but I do recall some of the stuff was pretty noxious).